If Hunger Games met Black Mirror in a reality TV show taken hostage on live television…

“The Escape” is the most-watched reality show in the world. During its tenth live season, the set is violently stormed, and the contestants are taken hostage. Who is behind the attack?

The Escape is a gripping dystopian thriller exposing a terrifyingly plausible vision of a society unraveling into a fascist dictatorship.

Bastien, a forty-year-old contestant, enters a high-stakes survival reality show to win €10 million and a trip around the world. Dropped into a remote, isolated forest alongside seven other participants, he is stripped of all modern technology and given only a map pointing to scattered shelters and food drops. But within hours, the game turns fatal. Bastien stumbles upon a corpse tagged with a chilling message: « Justice is served”. Soon, black-clad assailants hunt the contestants in the dark—not as part of the production, but as a ruthless, rogue execution squad.

Through dual timelines, the novel weaves a sharp satirical commentary on media manipulation, populism, and public surveillance, tracing how democracy can collapse into tyranny when citizens themselves vote to replace justice with spectacle.

A long-time media and social network professional, the author chose a pseudonym to use fiction to denounce the digital excesses of our time.